{"id":7491,"date":"2020-05-05T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:10:48","slug":"iphone-not-charging-reliably-clean-its-lightning-port-with-a-toothpick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/iphone-not-charging-reliably-clean-its-lightning-port-with-a-toothpick\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Not Charging Reliably? Clean Its Lightning Port with a Toothpick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re plugging your iPhone in regularly but getting low-battery warnings when you shouldn\u2019t, consider the possibility that something is preventing your iPhone from charging successfully while plugged in. If there\u2019s no lightning bolt badge on the battery icon when the iPhone is plugged in, that\u2019s a sure sign that no power is reaching the device. Another hint that failures could be happening intermittently would be a lack of charging in the Last Charge Level graph in Settings &gt; Battery when you know the iPhone was plugged in. Luckily, the solution is often easy. Take a wooden (not metal) toothpick and gently poke around inside the iPhone\u2019s Lightning port for pocket fuzz. You\u2019d be amazed how much crud can end up in there. If cleaning doesn\u2019t solve the problem and you use only a single Lightning cable to charge, try another one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7761\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/iphone-not-charging-reliably-clean-its-lightning-port-with-a-toothpick.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"176\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by Adam Engst)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re plugging your iPhone in regularly but getting low-battery warnings when you shouldn\u2019t, consider the possibility that something is preventing your iPhone from charging successfully while plugged in. If there\u2019s no lightning bolt badge on the battery icon when the iPhone is plugged in, that\u2019s a sure sign that no power is reaching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,69,106,8,108,112],"tags":[3108],"class_list":["post-7491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple-consultants","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-iphone","category-mac-support","category-mac-support-ct","tag-iphone-applesupportct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7512,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/7512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}